Dave Lee Travis ‘indecently assaulted a teenager while filming Top Of The Pops’

Dave Lee Travis is accused of indecently assaulting a teenager during a recording of Top Of The Pops (Picture: AP)

DJ Dave Lee Travis indecently assaulted a 19-year-old woman during a recording of Top Of The Pops, a court has been told.

The 68-year-old stuck his hand up the woman’s skirt to ‘touch her bum’ while filming was underway, Southwark crown court heard on Tuesday.

The former Radio One DJ, whose real name is David Patrick Griffin, carried out a series of assaults which were ‘sexual in nature’ while working as a disc jockey, acting in pantomimes and even at the opening of a hospital radio station, the jury heard.

Travis is on trial accused of assaulting 11 women, one of whom was 15 at the time of the alleged offence.

The jury was shown a short clip of Top Of The Pops from 1978, in which it is alleged Travis started to assault the 19-year-old woman, who had travelled to the show with a friend.

Dave Lee Travis arrives at Southwark crown court (Picture: AP)

Opening the Crown’s case, prosecutor Miranda Moore QC said the teenager ‘pulled away from him very quickly’ and added that her friend was ‘aware of something happening’.

However, the alleged assault was cut from the broadcast, Ms Moore added.

Another alleged assault was inadvertently stopped by one of the Chuckle Brothers when he walked past a room where Travis was said to be groping a young woman working on a pantomime, the court heard.

Travis was starring alongside the fellow entertainers in Aladdin between November 1990 and January 1991. The court heard the DJ only stopped the alleged assault when one of the Chuckle Brothers passed by.

Travis, from Buckinghamshire, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating back to between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008. He denies all the charges.

He was arrested under Scotland Yard’s Operation Yewtree, which was prompted by abuse allegations involving the late Jimmy Savile, the court heard.